Before the novel and the film Deliverance appeared in the early 1970s, any outsiders one met along the Chattooga River were likely serious canoeists or anglers.
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Because of Deliverance the Chattooga looms enigmatically in our shared imagination, as iconic as Twain\'s Mississippi--or maybe Conrad\'s Congo.
In later years, untold numbers and kinds of people have felt the draw of the river\'s torrents, which pour down the Appalachians along the Georgia-South Carolina border.
Before the novel and the film Deliverance appeared in the early 1970s, any outsiders one met along the Chattooga River were likely serious canoeists or anglers